charlotte23
New Member
Hi,
Yesterday we started a screed job and instead of getting ready mixed in, we decided to hire a screed pump (self mixing) as we have a lot of screeding coming up and wanted to try and reduce material costs. My husband and a couple employees started off fine, pumped half of what we needed into second floor of a newbuild block of flats, then the hose got clogged up and we ended up having to remove everything that had gone in and now going to do it with readymix tomorrow and we are left with 10 tonnes of sand on site! Not happy.
Can anyone help with regards to why it was clogging up, we hired the pump from A Plant and it's a Turbosol Transmat 27.45. My husband suggested that when you put first load the sand in each time, it finds it's way into the hole where it gets fed through, and instead of mixing in with the cement and water it is going through the hose on it's own and getting stuck, if this is the case then the machine is obviously a complete piece of crap as it can't do it's job, however I find this hard to believe. If anybody has any experience/suggestions with this it would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Charlotte
Yesterday we started a screed job and instead of getting ready mixed in, we decided to hire a screed pump (self mixing) as we have a lot of screeding coming up and wanted to try and reduce material costs. My husband and a couple employees started off fine, pumped half of what we needed into second floor of a newbuild block of flats, then the hose got clogged up and we ended up having to remove everything that had gone in and now going to do it with readymix tomorrow and we are left with 10 tonnes of sand on site! Not happy.
Can anyone help with regards to why it was clogging up, we hired the pump from A Plant and it's a Turbosol Transmat 27.45. My husband suggested that when you put first load the sand in each time, it finds it's way into the hole where it gets fed through, and instead of mixing in with the cement and water it is going through the hose on it's own and getting stuck, if this is the case then the machine is obviously a complete piece of crap as it can't do it's job, however I find this hard to believe. If anybody has any experience/suggestions with this it would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Charlotte